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When Moscow's Bolshoi Opera paid its first visit to the U.S. in 1975, it amply lived up to its name, which is Russian for big. The company offered majestic productions of such epics as Prokofiev's War and Peace and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, plus that Russian national favorite, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. That was the monolithic age of Brezhnev, after all, and the Bolshoi had long been the Kremlin's chief cultural weapon; the party bureaucracy decreed the choices of repertory, casting, even stage sets. The results were as strong as a tank, and just as subtle. Still...
...imaginative idea of using dolls to represent the main characters from time to time, but conductor Aleksander Lazarev sees Mlada's importance in musical terms: "Mlada's music is aimed at this 20th century of ours. Its living lines extend to the pagan music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev...
EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA Red Seal). From his daringly slow opening statement of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, and throughout this recital of challenging works by Liszt, Chopin and Prokofiev, the Soviet prodigy, now 19, shows a potential for future greatness, with a command of tone, dynamics and phrasing that is always at the service of musical ends...
Program organizers hope one highlight will be Thursday's 50th Anniversary Archives Special, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., which will feature seven pieces of music played by college music groups and taped exclusively by the station. The special will include a 1972 Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," narrated by President Derek C. Bok, said WHRB alumnus David R. Elliot '64-'65, secretary of WHRB's board of trustees...
This semester's classical orgy will feature Prokofiev. Other orgies will include a "Not the Beatles" orgy with Beatles songs covered by other groups, a James Bond theme music orgy, and an eight hour Pussy Galore orgy, said Wolk...